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A visit to the Cooper-Hewitt when it hosted the exhibition of Josef and Anni Albers’ work, led not just to a love of the Design Museum of the Smithsonian, but also to a love of the work of both Albers. In producing KIOSK magazine, meetings were oftentimes peppered with references to the Black Mountain College Bulletin, the publication of a progressive arts institution based in North Carolina at which not only illustrious teachers taught, and key intellectual lectured but which also saw the likes of Rauschenberg as a student.
Amongst these students was Robert de Niro Sr (father of the Hollywood actor), as this photo purports to show – Josef Albers is teaching a drawing class, and de Niro is noted to be the standing figure on the right of Albers, with his arms crossed.
Image: North Carolina State Archives.
Here is the programme for The Past in the Present conference, which is at Glasgow School of Art at the end of this month. Looks like lots of film and architecture …. I am speaking in 9.30am slot on the Saturday, giving a paper on Typing Bodies, about Galton and Bertillon, and the organisation of the body ….
A friend sent through this advert for a Press and Marketing Manager at the fantastic Foundling Museum, where she works. Here are the details:
Press and marketing manager
£24,943 pa
London’s Foundling Museum tells the moving and inspirational story of the Foundling Hospital, one of London’s proudest achievements, and is home to its nationally-important collection of eighteenth-century artworks and interiors, music and social history treasures.
An opportunity to work in a key role in a flourishing museum, managing its press activity and promoting the Foundling brand, to attract a wide audience.
For further information and an application pack, please email sarah@foundlingmuseum.org.uk or telephone 020 7841 3600. The closing date for completed applications is 9am, Thursday 11 October.
The Foundling Museum is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Registered charity no 1071167.
The call for papers for next year’s Design History Society conference, Networks of Design, has just been announced. Here it is:
Networks of Design 2008 Conference of the Design History Society
University College Falmouth, UK. 3-6 September 2008
The theme Networks of Design responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design, technology and the social sciences in the inter-connectedness and inter-relatedness of ‘networks’ of interactions within processes of knowledge formation. The interest in networks emerges from actor-network theory (ANT) and the work of, among others, the social theorist Bruno Latour who, along with the international designer and Droog collaborator Jurgen Bey, is a keynote speaker at the conference.
Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes, strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between people and things. Within the wider context of post-modernism we are, it seems, experiencing a paradigm shift in design history and this conference offers an opportunity to address, explore and assess that shift, providing a platform for international debate and exchange.
Networks can include people, social groups, artefacts, devices, entities and ideas. Papers will be organised around five broad themes:
- Networks of People including collectives and individuals
- Networks of Texts including images, documents, databases
- Networks of Technology including mechanical and virtual technologies
- Networks of Things including material and technological artefacts
- Networks of Ideas including theories, disciplines and concepts (among them design history and ANT)
Proposals for papers are welcome from individuals and/or panels (of not more than three papers). Please visit the web site: www.networksofdesign.co.uk or email Fiona Hackney at fiona.hackney@falmouth.ac.uk or networksofdesign@falmouth.ac.uk.
DesignObserver showed me the way to these covers, which could quite possibly be the best covers Vogue never does (by Scott King).
I have spent the last week or so playing around with Live Books from Microsoft, part of their project to digitise libraries. Have to admit it is very interesting and am discovering new resources all the time. Easy to search, easy to flick through a book to relevant pages.
Titles I have discovered so far include:
- The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century by Edward Wright Byrn (Munn & Co, 1900)
- One Hundred Valuable Lessons to Shorthand Students by Selby Albert Moran (Author, 1890)
- Scott-Browne’s Text-book of Phonography by Daniel L. Scott-Browne (Author, 1886)
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